JOGLER

25th June

What a day/weekend, we finally did it 💪. So happy for all the Wanderers and it was really good to see Michael and Sharon walking around celebrating with the fans at the end. Michael obviously doesn't like the spotlight, and fair do's, that's his choice, but massive respect to him... Without him there would be no Sharon!

I've done it 3 times before 👍

👏 Here here, well said!

No, just us

Lower tier virtually all gone.

My thoughts, in no particular order: 1. I'm away, Majorca, on a cycling holiday, arrived late on Tuesday. First job on Wednesday was to secure seats in a bar to watch the match - 12 of us, only me a true Wanderer 😁. On the night not a bratfurd fan to be seen! 2. How fantastic were the Super White fans who went... Thank you, you were brilliant, 12th man without any shadow of a doubt. I'm so f'ing proud of you. 3. How absolutely tinpot of the Bradford fans to come up with the excuse that we were louder because the TV microphones were in the side of the ground where we were! That's the side where they're usually located! Kinda let the cat out of the bag there you Tinpot Yorkshire losers! And, in any event, we were far far louder and infinitely more persistent. They thought they had an intimidating fortress .... They know nowt 4. Between cycling, eating, drinking, cycle chatting, football chatting and other stuff.... I've been finding it so difficult to read all the posts on here.... STOP POSTING, every time I come on here I can't get to the end...... only joking, love it. 5. I was leaving it to family/mates to secure Wembley tickets whilst I'm away, but, with a brief free spell, I checked the ticket status online and I could soon see that you lot had already snapped up virtually the whole lower tier behind the goal and a large proportion along the sides too! FFS, I can't have a holiday in peace..... So I pounced and booked our tickets before you lot grabbed them all 🤭😁🤣. 6. COYWM

are there any Chinese in there with you 😏

As we all know, the Playoffs can be an absolute lottery; a ludicrous refereeing decision, a serious injury to a key player, an inexplicable loss of form, etc, can all wreck a promotion attempt. HOWEVER, even ignoring the fact that we're currently the only team that's actually 'in' the Playoffs, there's not one of the other Playoff candidates that I would swap places with in terms of achieving success and reaching the Championship - not even close! If we have the same amount of good/bad luck as everyone else, we will be playing against Preston/Blackburn/Burnley et. al next season.

My grandad was also at the match - William Platt (my mums dad), I assume your great grandad wasn't related. Fortunately my grandad was unaffected by the tragedy, and as others have said, was unaware that there were deaths. Again, as others have said, my grandma was aware and was frantic with worry... she walked to the bus stop awaiting my grandad's arrival and was in a flood of tears when he stepped off the bus - he had no idea why at that point.

I don't believe it. 😁😁😁

You have a different recollection than me. I'm not saying for one minute that Parkinson was adored but the only reason he left was because the club, under Andertwats control, was falling apart, and furthermore, under the circumstances, Parky remained professional and dignified throughout.

I've said it before - and here I go again - our problem is our weak centre halves, especially the 2 that have been here for years. They're both extremely weak in the air - being good/strong in the air should be a non-negotiable asset of any centre half. Yes, they both, quite often, win defensive headers, but their inability to direct the ball anywhere near accurately is painful. I studied Toal's defensive challenges in one game recently (headers and kicks) and 90% of them resulted in the ball going directly to the opposition. This is profoundly illustrated whenever we get a corner, where any competent centre half should be offering a serious goal threat and subsequently relieving some of the pressure on our strikers; yes, Toal eventually found the net the today, but bloody hell, we had 15 corners! In summary, the weakness of our 2 main centre halves causes us persistent problems at both ends of the pitch, added to their continued persistence to revert to their sideways and backwards comfort zone - they absolutely must be replaced in the summer, whatever division we're in.

Should have been looking where you were peeing! 😏

They're the wigan of the south!

And they are the reason we continue to tread water; they appear to be immune to being dropped or sold (🙏).

I've been saying for a while (over 12 months) that Johnston is our biggest problem, yes he does some things right, but most people seem to be blind to all the things he does wrong/badly - and directing the ball out of play, when hardly under pressure at all, is one of those. He did it on Friday and Rotherham had 2 really good chances as a result of the throw-in he gifted them. He's also poor at heading - yes he gets to the ball, sometimes (definitely not always) but has limited control where the ball is going. He's incredibly weak at defending corners and, whilst he can play a good pass, god awful passes are also in his armoury. I hate criticising players online, but I'm afraid we aren't going up automatically if he remains in the team.

Gale is still quite young and therefore needs our patience - I.E. Accept that he will have bad games/moments, especially when, in my opinion, he has the chance to develop into an outstanding player who could take us far & make us a lot of money one day. ACD is exactly the same except that he's further advanced in his development (but still has poor games/moments) and he's not ours!

There you go.... you can take your whole family 🤷‍♂️

Please can you give us a heads-up when we can? 😁

Whilst wallowing in the afterglow of today's splendour, spare a thought for the little pies and how absolutely shite they will be feeling right now and for the rest of the weekend and at least all next week. ......... By thinking of their pain your joy will sore even higher! 😁

That's a tik from me.

Our centre halves aren't good enough, I've been saying it for at least 2 years. They're extremely poor in the air, evidenced by being weak when defending corners and other set pieces but also the fact that they rarely score.... Centre halves who are good in the air tend to score, as well as being strong defensively. Our centre halves can head the ball but have little control over where or how far the ball goes - just heading it seems to be the limit of their capabilities. I was hoping Richard Taylor would be better than what we've got at CH, he still might be but Schu seems to have penciled him in for full back.

Wigan... they have more than one by the same name.